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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Crushed Heart: The Dynamics of Mexican Emigration and Immigration | |
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| A Hunger for Freedom, A Wall of Separation | |
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| Breaking from Home in Mexico | |
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| The Pressure to Immigrate | |
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| Breaking from Family | |
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| Breaking from the Familiar | |
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| Crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border | |
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| The Border Patrol: La Migra | |
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| The Smuggler: El Coyote | |
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| The Life-Threatening Elements: La Muerte | |
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| Entering a Foreign Land | |
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| Political-Cultural Alienation: Mexican in an American Land | |
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| Socio-Economic Alienation: Poor in a Prosperous Land | |
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| Psycho-Spiritual Alienation: Lonely in an Unfamiliar Land | |
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| The Immigrant Predicament: A Stranger in a Foreign Land | |
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| The Immigrant Journey as a Way of the Cross | |
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| The Rehabilitated Heart: The Dynamics of Healing and Empowerment | |
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| A Spiritual Home in a Foreign Land | |
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| The Coachella Valley | |
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| The Valley Missionary Program | |
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| The Shrine and the Retreat House | |
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| The Missionary Encounter Retreat | |
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| Ritual and Mexican Immigrant Spirituality | |
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| A Spirituality of the Heart | |
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| A Ritual Process of Spiritual Transformation | |
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| Arriving with a Guarded Heart | |
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| The Cracking Open of a Stony Heart | |
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| The Healing of a Wounded Heart | |
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| The Creating of a Spiritual Heart | |
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| The Touching of God's Heart | |
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| The Ennobling of a Mexican Heart | |
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| The Cleansing of a Sinful Heart | |
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| The Awakening of a Joyful Heart | |
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| The Empowering of a Loving Heart | |
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| The Witnessing of a Grateful Heart | |
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| A Contextual Theology of Encounter | |
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| A New World and a New Way of Life: A Sacramental and Incarnational Spirituality | |
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| The Animated Heart: The Dynamics of Conversion and Transformation | |
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| A Foundation for Conversion | |
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| Affective Conversion through the Experience of the Beautiful | |
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| From Guardedness to Openness | |
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| From Negative Stereotypes to a More Positive Self-Identity | |
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| From Guilt to Forgiveness | |
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| Social Conversion through the Experience of Love | |
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| From Cultural Denial to Cultural Affirmation | |
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| From Indifference to Care | |
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| From Family of Blood to Family of the Spirit | |
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| Intellectual Conversion through the Experience of the Truth | |
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| From Machos to Hombres de Verdad (From Studs to Authentic Men) | |
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| From Viejas to Mujeres de Dignidad (From Old Maids to Dignified Women) | |
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| From Functional Illiteracy to Internalized Wisdom | |
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| Personal Moral Conversion through the Experience of the Good | |
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| From Powerlessness to Empowerment | |
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| From Self-Centered to Christ-Centered | |
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| From Immigrants to Missionaries | |
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| Religious Conversion through the Experience of Friendship with God | |
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| From a Distant, Impersonal God to a Close Personal Friend | |
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| From Sacramental Obligation to Sacramental Celebration | |
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| From Desgraciado to Graciado (From Disgraced to Graced) | |
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| From Death to Life: The Paschal Mystery in Coachella | |
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| The Flowering of the Heart: The Dynamics of Inculturation and Mission | |
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| The Mesoamerican Story and the Guadalupe Story | |
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| The Religious Ethos of Mesoamerica: Two Core Mesoamerican Symbols | |
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| Atltepetl: Fertile Center of the Divine Spirit | |
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| Corazon: Source of Life and Knowledge | |
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| Guadalupe: Rooting Christianity in Mesoamerican Soil | |
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| Tepeyac: A Christian Atltepetl | |
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| Juan Diego: An Encounter with the Divine Heart | |
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| Guadalupe: The Flowering of Mexican Christianity | |
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| The Encounter Retreat in Coachella: The Guadalupe Story and the Gospel Story | |
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| La Virgen and the Team: A New Message, a New Way of Life | |
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| Juan Diego and the Candidates: Out of Darkness, a New Light | |
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| Bishop Zumarraga and the Church: A Listening Church, a Church of the Poor | |
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| Tepyac and the Shrine: A New Center, A New Home | |
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| Flor y Canto: A Divine Message, A Human Medium | |
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| The Tilma and a Spirituality of Conversion: An Initial Response, An Ongoing Challenge | |
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| Juan Diego as Prototype of Converting Mexican-Immigrant Christian | |
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| Afterword | |
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| The Nican Mopohua-The Guadalupe Story | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |